Quentin D. Atkinson - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of Auckland, Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 
Area:
Cultural evolution, population genetics, human cooperation

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2024 Passmore S, Wood ALC, Barbieri C, Shilton D, Daikoku H, Atkinson QD, Savage PE. Global musical diversity is largely independent of linguistic and genetic histories. Nature Communications. 15: 3964. PMID 38729968 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48113-7  0.381
2023 Yurdum L, Singh M, Glowacki L, Vardy T, Atkinson QD, Hilton CB, Sauter D, Krasnow MM, Mehr SA. Universal interpretations of vocal music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120: e2218593120. PMID 37676911 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2218593120  0.43
2023 Heggarty P, Anderson C, Scarborough M, King B, Bouckaert R, Jocz L, Kümmel MJ, Jügel T, Irslinger B, Pooth R, Liljegren H, Strand RF, Haig G, Macák M, Kim RI, ... ... Atkinson QD, et al. Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages. Science (New York, N.Y.). 381: eabg0818. PMID 37499002 DOI: 10.1126/science.abg0818  0.807
2023 Skirgård H, Haynie HJ, Blasi DE, Hammarström H, Collins J, Latarche JJ, Lesage J, Weber T, Witzlack-Makarevich A, Passmore S, Chira A, Maurits L, Dinnage R, Dunn M, Reesink G, ... ... Atkinson QD, et al. Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss. Science Advances. 9: eadg6175. PMID 37075104 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg6175  0.752
2022 Kyritsis T, Matthews LJ, Welch D, Atkinson QD. Shared cultural ancestry predicts the global diffusion of democracy. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 4: e42. PMID 37588939 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2022.40  0.359
2022 Sheehan O, Watts J, Gray RD, Bulbulia J, Claessens S, Ringen EJ, Atkinson QD. Coevolution of religious and political authority in Austronesian societies. Nature Human Behaviour. PMID 36357777 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-022-01471-y  0.473
2022 Savage PE, Passmore S, Chiba G, Currie TE, Suzuki H, Atkinson QD. Sequence alignment of folk song melodies reveals cross-cultural regularities of musical evolution. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 35120658 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.039  0.351
2021 Beheim B, Atkinson QD, Bulbulia J, Gervais W, Gray RD, Henrich J, Lang M, Monroe MW, Muthukrishna M, Norenzayan A, Purzycki BG, Shariff A, Slingerland E, Spicer R, Willard AK. Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods. Nature. 595: E29-E34. PMID 34234331 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03655-4  0.373
2020 Slingerland E, Atkinson QD, Ember CR, Sheehan O, Muthukrishna M, Bulbulia J, Gray RD. Coding culture: challenges and recommendations for comparative cultural databases. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2: e29. PMID 37588354 DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2020.30  0.576
2020 Claessens S, Kyritsis T, Atkinson QD. Revised analysis shows relational mobility predicts sacrificial behavior in Footbridge but not Switch or Loop trolley problems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117: 13203-13204. PMID 32546629 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.2005012117  0.307
2020 Claessens S, Fischer K, Chaudhuri A, Sibley CG, Atkinson QD. The dual evolutionary foundations of political ideology. Nature Human Behaviour. PMID 32231279 DOI: 10.1038/S41562-020-0850-9  0.403
2019 Ruck DJ, Matthews LJ, Kyritsis T, Atkinson QD, Bentley RA. The cultural foundations of modern democracies. Nature Human Behaviour. PMID 31792400 DOI: 10.1038/S41562-019-0769-1  0.382
2019 Lang M, Purzycki BG, Apicella CL, Atkinson QD, Bolyanatz A, Cohen E, Handley C, Kundtová Klocová E, Lesorogol C, Mathew S, McNamara RA, Moya C, Placek CD, Soler M, Vardy T, et al. Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 286: 20190202. PMID 30836871 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2019.0202  0.371
2018 Watts J, Sheehan O, Bulbulia J, Gray RD, Atkinson QD. Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies. Nature Human Behaviour. 2: 559-564. PMID 31209317 DOI: 10.1038/S41562-018-0379-3  0.577
2018 Tambets K, Yunusbayev B, Hudjashov G, Ilumäe AM, Rootsi S, Honkola T, Vesakoski O, Atkinson Q, Skoglund P, Kushniarevich A, Litvinov S, Reidla M, Metspalu E, Saag L, Rantanen T, et al. Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations. Genome Biology. 19: 139. PMID 30241495 DOI: 10.1186/S13059-018-1522-1  0.352
2018 Sznycer D, Xygalatas D, Agey E, Alami S, An XF, Ananyeva KI, Atkinson QD, Broitman BR, Conte TJ, Flores C, Fukushima S, Hitokoto H, Kharitonov AN, Onyishi CN, Onyishi IE, et al. Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 30201711 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1805016115  0.424
2018 Sookias RB, Passmore S, Atkinson QD. Deep cultural ancestry and human development indicators across nation states. Royal Society Open Science. 5: 171411. PMID 29765628 DOI: 10.1098/Rsos.171411  0.436
2018 Sheehan O, Watts J, Gray RD, Atkinson QD. Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 29555760 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1714558115  0.555
2018 Bouckaert RR, Bowern C, Atkinson QD. The origin and expansion of Pama-Nyungan languages across Australia. Nature Ecology & Evolution. PMID 29531347 DOI: 10.1038/S41559-018-0489-3  0.77
2018 Purzycki BG, Ross CT, Apicella C, Atkinson QD, Cohen E, McNamara RA, Willard AK, Xygalatas D, Norenzayan A, Henrich J. Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross-cultural examination. Plos One. 13: e0193856. PMID 29513766 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0193856  0.312
2018 Moravec JC, Atkinson Q, Bowern C, Greenhill SJ, Jordan FM, Ross RM, Gray R, Marsland S, Cox MP. Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution Evolution and Human Behavior. 39: 594-601. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2018.06.002  0.775
2018 Purzycki BG, Pisor AC, Apicella C, Atkinson Q, Cohen E, Henrich J, McElreath R, McNamara RA, Norenzayan A, Willard AK, Xygalatas D. The cognitive and cultural foundations of moral behavior Evolution and Human Behavior. 39: 490-501. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2018.04.004  0.36
2017 Maurits L, Forkel R, Kaiping GA, Atkinson QD. BEASTling: A software tool for linguistic phylogenetics using BEAST 2. Plos One. 12: e0180908. PMID 28796784 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0180908  0.522
2017 Atkinson QD. Religion and expanding the cooperative sphere inKastomand Christian villages on Tanna, Vanuatu Religion, Brain & Behavior. 8: 149-167. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1267028  0.31
2017 Purzycki BG, Henrich J, Apicella C, Atkinson QD, Baimel A, Cohen E, McNamara RA, Willard AK, Xygalatas D, Norenzayan A. The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies Religion, Brain & Behavior. 8: 101-132. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1267027  0.365
2016 Saunders TJ, Taylor AH, Atkinson QD. No evidence that a range of artificial monitoring cues influence online donations to charity in an MTurk sample. Royal Society Open Science. 3: 150710. PMID 27853533 DOI: 10.1098/Rsos.150710  0.561
2016 Purzycki BG, Apicella C, Atkinson QD, Cohen E, McNamara RA, Willard AK, Xygalatas D, Norenzayan A, Henrich J. Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project. Scientific Data. 3: 160099. PMID 27824332 DOI: 10.1038/Sdata.2016.99  0.343
2016 Ross RM, Atkinson QD. Cultural differentiation does not entail group-level structure: The case for geographically explicit analysis. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39: e49. PMID 27562351 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000217  0.351
2016 Atkinson QD, Coomber T, Passmore S, Greenhill SJ, Kushnick G. Cultural and Environmental Predictors of Pre-European Deforestation on Pacific Islands. Plos One. 11: e0156340. PMID 27232713 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0156340  0.751
2016 Matthews LJ, Passmore S, Richard PM, Gray RD, Atkinson QD. Shared Cultural History as a Predictor of Political and Economic Changes among Nation States. Plos One. 11: e0152979. PMID 27110713 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0152979  0.598
2016 Watts J, Sheehan O, Atkinson QD, Bulbulia J, Gray RD. Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies. Nature. PMID 27042932 DOI: 10.1038/Nature17159  0.56
2016 Watts J, Bulbulia J, Gray RD, Atkinson QD. Clarity and causality needed in claims about Big Gods. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39: e27. PMID 26948745 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000576  0.499
2016 Purzycki BG, Apicella C, Atkinson QD, Cohen E, McNamara RA, Willard AK, Xygalatas D, Norenzayan A, Henrich J. Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality. Nature. PMID 26863190 DOI: 10.1038/Nature16980  0.385
2016 Botero CA, Harmon LJ, Atkinson Q. The promise and limits of eco-evolutionary studies of human culture Religion, Brain & Behavior. 7: 153-155. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2015.1132249  0.395
2015 Watts J, Sheehan O, Greenhill SJ, Gomes-Ng S, Atkinson QD, Bulbulia J, Gray RD. Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices. Plos One. 10: e0136783. PMID 26398231 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0136783  0.794
2015 Watts J, Greenhill SJ, Atkinson QD, Currie TE, Bulbulia J, Gray RD. Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 282: 20142556. PMID 25740888 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2014.2556  0.782
2015 Ross RM, Atkinson QD. Folktale transmission in the Arctic provides evidence for high bandwidth social learning among hunter-gatherer groups Evolution and Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2015.08.001  0.378
2014 Opie C, Shultz S, Atkinson QD, Currie T, Mace R. Phylogenetic reconstruction of Bantu kinship challenges Main Sequence Theory of human social evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111: 17414-9. PMID 25422461 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1415744111  0.358
2014 Kamilar JM, Atkinson QD. Cultural assemblages show nested structure in humans and chimpanzees but not orangutans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111: 111-5. PMID 24324143 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1313318110  0.434
2013 Pagel M, Atkinson QD, Calude AS, Meade A. Reply to Mahowald and Gibson and to Heggarty: No problems with short words, and no evidence provided. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: E3255. PMID 24137736 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1309838110  0.75
2013 Pagel M, Atkinson QD, S Calude A, Meade A. Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: 8471-6. PMID 23650390 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1218726110  0.512
2013 Atkinson QD. The descent of words. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: 4159-60. PMID 23417305 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1300397110  0.521
2013 Ross RM, Greenhill SJ, Atkinson QD. Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 280: 20123065. PMID 23390109 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2012.3065  0.756
2013 Mullins DA, Whitehouse H, Atkinson QD. The role of writing and recordkeeping in the cultural evolution of human cooperation Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 90: S141-S151. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2012.12.017  0.412
2012 Bouckaert R, Lemey P, Dunn M, Greenhill SJ, Alekseyenko AV, Drummond AJ, Gray RD, Suchard MA, Atkinson QD. Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family. Science (New York, N.Y.). 337: 957-60. PMID 22923579 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1219669  0.818
2012 Bowern C, Atkinson Q. Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan Language. 88: 817-845. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2012.0081  0.714
2012 Atkinson QD. Response to comment on "Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa" Science. 335: 1042b. DOI: 10.1126/Science.1215788  0.529
2011 Atkinson QD. Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa. Science (New York, N.Y.). 332: 346-9. PMID 21493858 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1199295  0.6
2011 Gray RD, Atkinson QD, Greenhill SJ. Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 366: 1090-100. PMID 21357231 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2010.0378  0.827
2011 Atkinson QD. Linking spatial patterns of language variation to ancient demography and population migrations Linguistic Typology. 15: 321-332. DOI: 10.1515/Lity.2011.022  0.44
2011 Atkinson QD, Whitehouse H. The cultural morphospace of ritual form. Examining modes of religiosity cross-culturally Evolution and Human Behavior. 32: 50-62. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2010.09.002  0.331
2011 Atkinson QD, Bourrat P. Beliefs about God, the afterlife and morality support the role of supernatural policing in human cooperation Evolution and Human Behavior. 32: 41-49. DOI: 10.1016/J.Evolhumbehav.2010.07.008  0.383
2010 Greenhill SJ, Atkinson QD, Meade A, Gray RD. The shape and tempo of language evolution. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 277: 2443-50. PMID 20375050 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2010.0051  0.823
2010 Atkinson QD. The prospects for tracing deep language ancestry Journal of Anthropological Sciences. 88: 231-233.  0.423
2009 Atkinson QD, Gray RD, Drummond AJ. Bayesian coalescent inference of major human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup expansions in Africa. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 276: 367-73. PMID 18826938 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2008.0785  0.532
2009 Atkinson QD. Review of McMahon & McMahon (2005): Language Classification by Numbers Diachronica. 26: 125-133. DOI: 10.1075/Dia.26.1.06Atk  0.458
2008 Atkinson QD, Meade A, Venditti C, Greenhill SJ, Pagel M. Languages evolve in punctuational bursts. Science (New York, N.Y.). 319: 588. PMID 18239118 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1149683  0.811
2008 Atkinson QD, Gray RD, Drummond AJ. mtDNA variation predicts population size in humans and reveals a major Southern Asian chapter in human prehistory. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25: 468-74. PMID 18093996 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msm277  0.544
2008 Pagel M, Atkinson QD. The potential for genetic adaptations to language Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 31: 529-530. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X08005207  0.516
2008 Brock G, Atkinson QD. What can examining the psychology of nationalism tell us about our prospects for aiming at the cosmopolitan vision? Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 11: 165-179. DOI: 10.1007/S10677-007-9087-1  0.344
2007 Pagel M, Atkinson QD, Meade A. Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature. 449: 717-20. PMID 17928860 DOI: 10.1038/Nature06176  0.529
2005 Atkinson QD, Gray RD. Curious parallels and curious connections--phylogenetic thinking in biology and historical linguistics. Systematic Biology. 54: 513-26. PMID 16051587 DOI: 10.1080/10635150590950317  0.606
2005 Atkinson Q, Nicholls G, Welch D, Gray R. From words to dates: Water into wine, mathemagic or phylogenetic inference? Transactions of the Philological Society. 103: 193-219. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-968X.2005.00151.X  0.6
2003 Gray RD, Atkinson QD. Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin. Nature. 426: 435-9. PMID 14647380 DOI: 10.1038/Nature02029  0.676
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